Domesticating Revolution
Gerald W. Creed
The collapse of state socialism in 1989 focused attention on the transition to democracy and capitalism in Eastern Europe. But for many people who actually lived through the transition, the changes were often disappointing. Perhaps none were more disappointed than the villagers of rural Bulgaria whose very lifestyles and identities were threatened by the transition. Domesticating Revolution explains this unexpected outcome through a detailed study of economic reform in one Bulgarian village, from the beginning of collectivization in the 1940s to decollectivization efforts in the 1990s.
Gerald Creed is the only American anthropologist to have conducted extended fieldwork in a ... Read more
Domesticating Revolution will force scholars to rethink both their models of state socialism and their interpretations of the transition.
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